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Airline frequent flyer programs were much simpler for me to understand than hotel loyalty programs when I started collecting miles and points over 20 years ago. The problem with figuring hotel loyalty programs for a leisure traveler is the lack of experience when you have no necessity to spend 50 to 100 nights a year…
IHG Free Nights Faster January 15-April 30, 2019 is a promotion requiring completion of member targeted tasks for bonus points. My offer consisted of 6 tasks for 52,550 bonus points. I needed to complete 5 of 6 tasks for an Achievement Bonus of 16,850 bonus points. Three hotel stays in Warsaw last week completed 5…
InterContinental Warsaw was stay #2 of 3 stays I planned for IHG Rewards Club ‘Free Nights Faster’ promotion to maximize bonus points earned with hotel stays in Warsaw, Poland over the past week. When rates dropped to $99.73 for advance purchase on February 6, I figured that was a great day to book IC Warsaw,…
Warsaw is the city where I am on track to pick up 3 hotel stays with 3 hotel nights for $300 to earn 43,000+ points. My first of three stays was Holiday Inn Warsaw City Centre. This stay completed two of my bonus points tasks for IHG Free Nights Faster (Jan 15-April 30) earning 2,000 bonus…
IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks list of hotels has posted for discount reward nights on stays through May 31, 2019. This is a slim list at 95 hotels worldwide, which debunks the rationale originally offered for adding hotels at 10,000 and 15,000 points that saw 200+ hotels offering discounts on PointBreaks lists a year ago when…
As a leisure traveler the interesting research for me is figuring out how to use hotel loyalty program promotions to maximize the rebates I receive for my hotel spend. Currently there are three good value promotions for March-April 2019 hotel stays with Best Western Rewards free night after two stays, Choice Privileges 8,000 points after…
Nine major hotel chains with loyalty programs currently number 152 different hotel brands for earning and redeeming points. Most of the major chains had at least one new hotel brand become part of their respective hotel loyalty program within the past year. Smith Travel Research provides a hotel industry standard market segment ranking for most…
Holiday Inn Express Amsterdam City Hall opened in April 2018 in a location about 15 minutes walk east of Centraal Station. I wrote in January 2018 that I thought it unlikely the reward rate would remain priced at 20,000 points for very long. I booked the hotel in October 2018 at 20K per night for…
‘Next time book KLM nonstop Amsterdam to SFO’ is Kelley’s request. Our trip shutdown clock was two days more than planned after completing 13 wonderful days of travel from San Jose to London to Windsor to Amsterdam, then back to London for our British Airways flight to Fort Lauderdale and onward flights home to California.…
Kimpton Hotels has 21 hotels across the USA on this week’s Last Minute Deals. These deals are prepaid advance purchase rates for stays January 10 to 15, 2019. The lowest $80 rates are available at a couple of ‘shutdown city’ hotels in Washington D.C. Next week’s list will be even more valuable after the IHG…
